![]() ![]() ![]() Ripley, The Price of Salt (filmed as Carol), and others have appealed not just to fans of crime fiction, but to filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, Wim Wenders, and Claude Chabrol. Her novels Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Highsmith is less interested in the whodunnit than in the howdunnit. Ostensibly her books are mysteries, but more accurately, they are thrillers. ![]() She reigns (even in death) as the unequivocal queen of her genre. Gone Girl was a better movie, to be sure, but there's enough in Deep Water to admire. ![]() Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Gone Girlthe last time we've seen Ben Affleck so emasculated (or “remasculate,” in the words of one of Melinda's dumber lovers, Joel, played by Brendan Miller). It's difficult to decipher who of the two leads in the film is the most maddening: Melinda for being cruel or Vic for being tolerant. And Melinda sees Vic as weak, and so profoundly in love with her that divorce is never a threat. It appears that Vic is an uber feminist husband who wouldn’t think of setting hard-line rules dictating her desires. Neighbours and friends sympathize as Vic is openly humiliated by a drunk and flirtatious Melinda. Even their six-year-old daughter, Trixie ( Grace Jenkins), questions mommy's wild behaviour. Vic is married to Melinda, ( Ana de Armas), who openly flaunts her indiscretions in front of her husband, their friends, and family. ![]()
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